| | ESPN.com - MLB - Muse, creator of modern batting helmet, dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Muse later had a prototype of the helmet molded into a lamp that sat on his office desk for years. |
 | | The Pirates were the first team to wear the helmets in 1952 and 1953, and their adoption was speeded after the Braves' Joe Adcock was beaned so severely by the Dodgers' Clem Labine on Aug. 1, 1954, that he was unconscious for 15 minutes. |
 | | Adcock said the helmet may have saved him from a severe injury, and the next day the Brooklyn Dodgers ordered all players in their organization to begin wearing helmets. |
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